Water-closet.



PATENTED JULY 9, 1907.

J. F. KELLY. WATER CLOSET. APPLICATION FILED rm. 16, 1901.

19i moon s UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN I. KELLY, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS MADDOCKS SONS COMPANY, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY, AND ONE-HALF TO HAINES, JONES & OADBURY COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

WATER-CLOSET.

No. 859,302. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 9, 1907.

Application filed February 16, 1907. Serial No. 357.631.

To all whom it may concern: the bowl to the floor producing unpleasant and un- Be it known that I, JOHN F. KELLY, a citizen of the sanitary conditions. It has been attempted to avoid 55 United States, residing at Trenton, county of Mercer, this difficulty by providing the seat with a pendent State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and apron or shield on its under face near the front, or by useful Improvements in ater-Closets; and I do constructing the front edge of the bowl with an iso hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and lated vertical rib rising above the general surface of exact description of the invention, such as will enable the bowl rim and cutting away the fore part of the 60 others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make seat to accommodate this lip-like construction. These and use the same. constructions have not proved satisfactory for the rea- The invention relates to waterclosets and has for son that they are either difficult to maintain in saniits object to provide an improved form of closet which tary condition or so far weaken the seat as to render will prevent drip or seepage of urine down the front quite easily broken. 65 of the bowl, more particularly when the closet is used In the construction involving the isolated lip on the by the females; the invention also contemplates the front of the bowl rim considerable difficulty has been provision of a closet, of vitreous ware or the like in experienced in the manufacture of the bowls owing which the usual form of hinged seat may be dispensed to the fact that they cannot be placed vertically, with. resting on the rim, in the sagger; and furthermore, 70

To these ends the invention comprises a closet bowl the extra material and labor due to the presence of the having an rip-standing flange on the rim thereof assolip entails greater expense in the making and also inciated with a seat with an extension 011 its under surface troduces several strains on the portions of the rim adlying behind said flange and co-operating therewith jacent to the lip in the baking or drying operation. to form a seal or shield to prevent water or urine, that According to the present invention, the difficulties, 75 is directed in a substantially horizontal plane near the hereinbefore enumerated as characterizing former top of the bowl, escaping over the edge thereof and types of closets, have been avoided by providing the finding its way down the front or sides of the bowl to rim of the closet with an upstanding flange c around the floor. its outer edge, or, what is to the same effect, provid A convenient form of the invention includes the ing the upper surface of the rim with a countersink 8O provision of an annular recess or countersink in the or annularly recessed portion d; the top surfaces of top rim of the bowl to form an out-lying and up-standboth the rip-standing flange c and the countersink d ing flange combined with a seat having its inner or are substantially plane, the latter being preferably central portion made relatively thick so as to cause given an inward and downward inclination suffithe same to lie within the countersink of the rim and cient to cause any liquid that may accumulate thereon thereby constitute between the seat and the rim a to run back into the bowl. tortuous channel which will prevent the escape of (lo-operating with the rim-of the bowl to prevent 35 drippings or urine from the interior of the bowl. the escape of liquid over the edge of the rim, is the In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a verseat 6 which is provided at its inner or central portion tical longitudinal section through a standard waterwith a reinforce or relatively thickened area 9 which closet embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan View maybe conveniently extended around the entire under of a closet havingamodified form of seat,aportion of the surface of the seat leaving the outer and under pe- 40 latter being broken away to show the relative arrangeripheral edge of the seat as an under-cut or rabbet f, ment of the parts. the junction between the portions f and g forming a Referring to the drawings, a indicates a watershoulder which lies adjacent the inner face of the upcloset bowl, which may be of any convenient or pre standing flange c and constitutes a seal which will ferred type, which is provided with a special form effectively prevent the escape of any liquid between 45 of seat a and cover h, connected to the bowl by duthe seat and the rim of the bowl, even though the plex hinges i to permit the seat and cover to be swung liquid be directed outwardly in a horizontal direction. back in the usual manner. The under surface of the portion 9 may be conven- In the ordinary types of closet, as heretofore coniently provided with the usual rubber buffers m structed and employed, it has been found that, parwhich rest upon the upper plane surface of the coun- 50 ticularly in the case of women users, the urine striktersink d.

ing the bowl at the front near the rim, frequently Where it is preferred the seat e may be hinged to passes between the seat and the upper surface of the the bowl, in the usual manner, as at i, and also may rim and falls upon the floor or runs down the front of be provided with the ordinary form of cover h which is likewise attached to the hinge i. The invention, however, contemplates the employment of a .loose seat, which is not hinged or otherwise positively connected to the bowl and the peculiar co-operation of the under side of the seat and the upper surface of the bowl rim renders the employment of a loose seat not only feasible but decidedly advantageous.

It will be noted that the peripheral rabbet on-the under surface of the seat and the up-standing flange c on the bowl :[it neatly together and prevent the seat being displaced except in a vertical direction, thereby preventing the seat being accidentally disarranged. The advantages of a loose "and removable seat are, of course, obvious, but it may be remarked that some of the more important advantages are the facility with whichthe bowl may be cleansed in all its partsby removing the seat and the absence of the hinge .members and their connections with the bowl, seat and cover which have always proved a-source oi unsanitary conditions owing to the fact thatthe metal parts corrode and also serve to condense and retain moisture thereon and in their immediate neighborhood. Where the seat is free from connecting membersand may be instantly removed from the bowl, it willreadily be seen that not only the bowl .but the seat itselfmay be kept absolutely oleanand sanitary.

What I claimaszmy inventionis:

1. Ina watercloset, the combination with thelbowl having a rim comprising a plain upper surface and an upstanding flange surrounding the same, and a seat having an extension on the under surface lying behind said flange and above the plain portion of said rim.

2. In a-water closet the combination with the bowlhaving, a rim comprising a plain upper surface and an upstanding flange surrounding' the same, and a seat having its lower peripheral edge under cut to cooperate with the flange on the rim.

3. In a water closet the combination with the bowl'having, a recessed or countersunk-portion around the inner portion of the rim forming a plain surface, and aseat having a relatively thick inner portion adapted to lie Within the countersink of the rim and abovesaid plain surface.

In testimony whereotteflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. KELLY.

Witnesses CHAS. .I. ONEILL, J. E. HUTCHINSON, Jr. 

